Responding to the rising number of children living with complex chronic conditions

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Medicine (Cohen), Department of Pediatrics & Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto; Institute of Health Policy (Cohen), Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research (Cohen), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Division of General Pediatrics (Patel), Montreal Children's Hospital; Department of Pediatrics (Patel), McGill University, Montréal, Que. eyal.cohen@sickkids.ca.
² Division of Pediatric Medicine (Cohen), Department of Pediatrics & Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto; Institute of Health Policy (Cohen), Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research (Cohen), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Division of General Pediatrics (Patel), Montreal Children's Hospital; Department of Pediatrics (Patel), McGill University, Montréal, Que.

Eyal Cohen et al. CMAJ. 2014.

. 2014 Nov 4;186(16):1199-200.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.141036. Epub 2014 Oct 14.

¹ Division of Pediatric Medicine (Cohen), Department of Pediatrics & Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto; Institute of Health Policy (Cohen), Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research (Cohen), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Division of General Pediatrics (Patel), Montreal Children's Hospital; Department of Pediatrics (Patel), McGill University, Montréal, Que. eyal.cohen@sickkids.ca.
² Division of Pediatric Medicine (Cohen), Department of Pediatrics & Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto; Institute of Health Policy (Cohen), Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research (Cohen), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Division of General Pediatrics (Patel), Montreal Children's Hospital; Department of Pediatrics (Patel), McGill University, Montréal, Que.

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